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Date:      Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:11:45 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Brian John" <brianjohn@fusemail.com>
To:        "Noel Jones" <noeldude@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to find files less than a day old?
Message-ID:   <4271.209.87.176.4.1112127105.fusewebmail-19592@webmail.fusemail.com>

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> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:02:37 -0600 (CST), Brian John
> <brianjohn@fusemail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to write a script to concatenate a bunch of files. 
Basically I
> > want to grab a bunch of files out of a directory that are less than an
> > hour or so old and put them in one file.
> >
> > This is what I am using so far:
> >
> > find . -mtime -1 -type f | xargs cat > temp.txt
> >
> > However, this only grabs files that are less than a day old, so I get
some
> > files returned that I don't want.  I tried using -0.5 instead of -1
and it
> > didn't work.  How can I accomplish this?
> >
>
>
> find . -mtime -1h -type f ....
>
> man find
>
>
> --
> Noel Jones
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I read the man page and didn't see that.  It doesn't appear to work on the
box that I am ssh-ing to.  Sorry, I should have mentioned that it is not a
FreeBSD box that I am connected to.  I think it may be a Solaris 9 box. 
Is there any way to get this to work in Solaris?

Thanks

/Brian



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